531 Plymouth Rd., Suite 500, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

610-254-9001

www.caringfriendshomecare.org

Services: They have a full range of services provided by home health aides, social work assistants who provide concierge services, crisis intervention, and care managers to supervise services, if necessary. Assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, meal preparation, grocery shopping, transportation, and light housekeeping. Provide information over the phone, and home visits as needed to make arrangements and create plan of care.

Insured: Yes

Licensed: Yes

Criminal background checks: Yes

Notes: Intervention Associates and Caring Friends Home Care are subsidiaries of Friends Life Care System, a Quaker organization. Website has much useful information – the blog includes articles on glaucoma, COPD, hospice, caregiving, etc.

Griswold Special Care

800 Bethlehem Pike, Erdenheim, PA 19038

215-261-7185

www.griswoldhomecare.com

Services: The nation's oldest home care service; Griswold operates in 30 states. They refer Caregivers who provide in-home care services including personal care, homemaking, companionship, and other home care services at a 4 hour minimum.

Insured: Yes

Licensed: Yes

Intervention Associates

531 Plymouth Rd., Suite 500, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

610-254-9001

www.interventionassociates.org

Services: Professional care management (licensed social workers), guardianship services, care plans, health advocacy, and bill paying services.

Insured: Yes

Licensed: Yes

Criminal background checks: Yes

Rates: $120.00/hour – professional care management and guardianship services; $33.00/hour – bill paying services

Notes: Intervention Associates and Caring Friends Home Care are subsidiaries of Friends Life Care System, a Quaker organization.

Primary Home Care, LLC

8080 Old York Rd, Suite 204, Elkins Park, 19027

215-635-3151

Services: Offers a medical home visit program to the houses of those who are frail, chronically ill, or severely disabled and unable to travel due to medical problems. Visits are provided on a regular monthly schedule, along with sick call visits and 24 hour on-call service. Accepts referrals directly from hospitals, nursing homes, patients, nurses, physicians, case managers, therapists, social workers and family members. Offers complete medical exam; mental status evaluation; routine laboratory tests; in-home x-ray and EKG; ongoing medical follow-up as well as consultations of specialists; hospice and podiatry. All major insurances are accepted.

Licensed: Yes

Insured: Yes

Senior Helpers of NW Philadelphia

7600 Stenton Ave., Philadelphia, PA Suite 1J, Philadelphia, PA 19118

215-242-2221

Seniorhelpers.com

Services: They do house cleaning, laundry, walk animals, meal preparation, read, play games, correspondence, errands, etc. Personal care includes bathing & dressing, escort to appointments. They specialize in Alzheimer’s and dementia care. Minimum of 3 hours.

Insured: Yes

Licensed: Yes

Criminal background checks: Yes

Rates: $22/hour for housekeeping, companionship services, bathing, grocery shopping, etc. Provide transportation at rate of $.56 per mile + staff hourly rate ($22/hour) - min 3 hours. Saturdays and Sundays are $23/hour.

Note: Another service they offer is a “Peace of Mind” one-hour visit which can occur daily, if requested. Rates can be worked out on a case-by-case basis if a daily visit is needed.

Time Out

Ritter Annex, Room 437, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19122

215-204-6540

templeigc.org/time-out-respite-program

Services: Time Out is a program of the Intergenerational Center at Temple University that trains and matches students to serve as respite caregivers, allowing family caregivers a break. The students are undergraduates majoring in nursing, social work, psychology, occupational therapy, and pharmacy. Students act as companions and help with meal preparation, encourage their clients to walk and exercise, organize activities, and keep the elder safe in their home.

Insured: Yes

Criminal background checks: Yes

Rates: $25 annual registration fee and at least 8 hours/month with same student per semester. The home caregiver can complete an intake form online. The students receive $8 an hour from caregivers for their services. If students are eligible for Work Study grants, they are paid directly by the university.

UUH Outreach Program

22 W. Rittenhouse St., 1^st Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19144

215-843-5881

Uuhoutreach.org

Services: This FREE service for persons 60+ who live independently in NW Philadelphia. Neighborhood nurse and social worker make a home visit to identify needs and concerns. The nurse can review medications, demonstrate self-care, and help you work with your doctor. The social worker can provide information and referral to other services. Make client check-in calls periodically, usually quarterly.

Insured: Yes

Licensed: Yes

Notes: Begun in 1999 as part of Unitarian Universalist House (which closed in 2010). Private funding; no government regulations or red tape. Established the NW Home Visiting Professionals Network to stay up-to-date on local aging resources.

Visiting Nurses Association of Greater Philadelphia (VNA)

www.vnaphilly.org/

Offices - 4601 Market, 19139
215-473-0772

Hospice - 501 S. 54th St. 19143
215-473-0772

Services: Provides skilled nursing care, physical and occupational therapy, home health aide, chronically ill, palliative care, mental health, ostomy care, speech pathologist, and social worker. Doctors and nurse practitioners on staff who make house calls. Can make referrals to specialists, such as podiatrists and cardiologists who make home visits. Mobile x-rays and lab services are also available. VNA staff provide treatments, teach you about your health care needs, and can train a family member to help care for you. The length of VNA treatment allowed depends on your condition and your insurance. Hospice care is provided at home and in the VNA inpatient hospice at the Falls Center on Henry Avenue.

Insured: Yes

Licensed: Yes

Notes: They deal only with Medicare & insurance companies; no private payment of any kind. They do not accept Medicare patients whose Medicare policy is managed by Aetna HMO or PPO.